Word: shitting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...genuine Russian. Then again, our ultimate pop icon Elvis Presley probably was closer to popular sentiment when he plugged his Sony with a .38, explaining to his manager, who lay wounded by the richochet, in that wonderful Memphis drawl--"Nobody should have to put up with that shit...
...make the characters seem affected, label-crazy people. Their present is stilted. Unfortunately, even the folkloric tropics suffer under the slaps of some heavy-handed metaphors, particularly the poor fishes who are made to listen to "the beating of hooves" which belong to clouds (?!?!). Worse, Jadine screams "Horse-shit!" and the "avocado tree standing by the side of the road, heard her, having really seen a horse's shit, thought she probably misused the word." The sentence is pretty misused too and just falls flat on the page...
...learned that lesson when I went to Cornell. One government section leader explained the Soviet Union'S resistance to change: "Well, you just can't go up to the leader of the Soviet Union and tell him his proposal is absolute shit." The same day in the same class another student asken what the difference was between the Soviet Union and the U.S.S.R...
...then buys 20 acres of Utah real estate from a radio ad; the flower child who steals from an old man. She has the good fortune to have the best lines in the show. When asked where she'll stay in Utah, she says, "The country's gone to shit; there's always a motel." But Franklin's insightful portrayal only makes the shortcomings of the rest of the cast more painfully obvious...
Benchley: Of course I mean it, John. You were born a shit just as some people are born with blue eyes, but that's no reason to go around apologizing for it. People take you for what...